Posted: May 14, 2014 10:53 pm
the mouse wrote:1+1=5, is not illogical.
Because technically one can represent one, 2.5oz bag of coke, and the 5 could just mean 5 oz in total.
If, however, some hypothetical person were to simply say that 1+1=5 without explaining up front that one side of the equation referred to bags of coke and the other to the number of ounces, then they would clearly not be behaving in an honest manner. They would be being either extremely dishonest or impossibly dense.
Even if they did explain this up front, they would still be behaving bizarrely. The normal way to express this would be 2.5+2.5=5 (where both sides refer to ounces) or 1+1=2 (where both sides refer to bags).
I don't understand what point you were trying to make here. It seems that you are making a defence of a style of discourse that is at best unclear and quite likely dishonest.